Fermentation Beer & Brewing Radio goes LIVE at the 2019 Barcelona Beer Festival!

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• Emma with members of the Spanish Pink Boots Society
• Joan 'Birraire' Villar-i-Marti
• Emma with Anna Hereu

In this extra-special episode we celebrate pan-European collaboration, and the wonder of our international beer scene, through a discussion recorded live in front of an audience at one of best beer festivals in the world.

Some of the key players in the thriving Barcelona beer scene talk to Emma about beer, brewing and the strong connections between the UK and Catalan scenes.

Emma's guests are:

• Joan Villar-i-Marti - (aka Joan Birraire) beer writer and one of the organisers of the Barcelona Beer Festival;
• Quionia Pujol - co-founder of Lo Vilot, a brewery aiming to become Catalonia's first 'full-circle', sustainable breweries;
• Alberto Coromina - founder of Cyclic Beer Farm, a brewery specialising in farmhouse beers, and
• Anna & Christina from the Spanish chapter of the Pink Boots Brewing Society

Today's episode is the very first Fermentation Bitesize - occasional single-guest specials featuring the best of the contemporary beer scene.

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Collaboration is the theme of the discussion and today's guest has pulled together a truly monumental collaboration between 12 brewers from all parts of the UK and 12 brewers from right across Europe. The project is called 'Citizens of Everywhere' and the person behind it is Justin Hawke, founder and head brewer at Moor Beer.

The full list of breweries involved in the project, and the European Union achievement they will be following is:

• Boundary X White Hag - ease of travel
• Five Points X Bevog - enhanced security & crime prevention
• Fyne Ales X Beerbliotek - protection of workers' rights
• Gipsy Hill X ToOl - creation of the Schengen Area
• Lost & Grounded X Mahrs - protection of the environment
• Moor X Lambrate - cross cultural collaboration
• North X Stu Mostow - peace in Western Europe
• Northern Monk X Guineu - greater consumer rights
• Ramsgate X Pohjala - spread of democracy
• Siren X Kees - enhanced economic trading
• Thornbridge X Brasserie de la Senne - scientific & technological cooperation
• Tiny Rebel X Mont Saleve - education exchange

Check out the Citizens of Everywhere website, Thirsty (Cambridge) and Beer52 for details of how to get hold of the beers.

The month of March is Women's History Month and Friday 8 March is International Women's Day - a time to reflect on the great progress made in terms of women's rights, and also to redouble our efforts in the fight for change, the fight to achieve equal rights for all women and girls across the world.

In this episode we mark International Women's Day by doing just that - and by talking to and celebrating some of the wonderful women who are working hard right across the contemporary beer scene.

Featuring:

• Sophie de Ronde - Head Brewer at Burnt Mill Brewery and founder of International Women's Collaboration Brew Day;

• Gabe Barry - Education Manager for Brooklyn Brewery - Europe;

• Jane Barnes - founder of Mothership Brewery;

• Claire Russell - co-founder of Home Brewtique; and

• resident beer sommelier, Jane Peyton.

• Burnt Mill Brewery
• Sophie de Ronde
• Burnt Mill Brewery
• Emma doing some 'Quality Control' at Burnt Mill Brewery
• Burnt Mill Brewery
• Burnt Mill - High Hopes IPA
• Jane Barnes - Mothership Brewery
• Mothership at Craft Beer Rising
• Jane & Jane!

The contemporary beer revolution has changed far more than simply the liquid in your glass. The whole aesthetic around beer has changed and nothing reflects this more starkly than the art associated with beer. From pump clips to label design to the artwork that singles some breweries out as pretty special - nothing is the same as it was before.

In this episode we explore the wonderful world of beer and art. Featuring:

• Dave Stone & Sally Lindsell (Wylam Brewery);
• Darron Anley (Siren Craft Brew);
• Luci & Mike Clayton-Jones (Double-Barrelled);
• Leigh Pearce (Cloak & Dagger);
• Toni Skinner (Pig's Ears Distribution);
• the staff and customers at Bison Beer in Hove;
• and resident beer sommelier, Jane Peyton.

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• Wylam Brewery & Left Handed Giant Brewery - two from the Tate Modern Series
• Bison Beer
• Double Barrelled Brewery
• Double Barrelled Brewery
• Tate Modern Beer & Art Series
• Siren Craft Brew
• Left Handed Giant - the beer that caught Jane's eye!
• Resident Beer Sommelier, Jane Peyton
• Cloak & Dagger at The Cloakroom
• Cloak & Dagger

Every beer has a tale to tell, and much of that story is wrapped up in the journey of how it came into being, the steps its maker took to bring it to life. This episode explores just some of those journeys.

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Featuring:

• James Rylance (Harbour Brewing / Hinterland);
• Eddie Lofthouse (Harbour Brewing);
• Peter Simpson (Open Gate Brewery);
• Luci & Mike Clayton-Jones (Double Barrelled Brewery);
• Tommy Barnes (Braslou Biere & author of 'Beer in the Loire');
• and resident beer sommelier, Jane Peyton.

• James Rylance (Harbour/Hinterland) & Peter Simpson (Open Gate Brewery)
• Eddie Lofthouse (Harbour)
• Harbour Brewing Co X Hawksmoor X Open Gate collaboration
• Double Barrelled brews
• Luci & Mike Clayton-Jones (Double Barrelled)
• Pouring at the Double Barrelled Tap Room, Reading
• Tastings at Fermentation HQ
• Fuller's 1845
• Beer in the Loire - Tommy Barnes
• Jane Peyton

Many thanks to Harbour Brewing Co, Hawksmoor, Open Gate Brewery and Fuller's for some of the beers tasted on today's show. Thanks to Tommy Barnes & Muswell Press for the copy of Beer in the Loire.

Explore stories from right across the contemporary beer world in this bumper-sized international episode.

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Featuring:

• Rogue Ales' Bill Tollner (USA);
• Todd Nicolson from the New Zealand Beer Collective (NZ);
• Stu McKinlay, benevolent dictator of the Yeastie Boys (NZ / UK / Australia);
• Vice President of Kiuchi Brewery, Mr Youichi Kiuchi (Japan);
• Ingrid Vico, brewer at Mahou San Miguel (Spain);
• beer writer & founder of #FlagshipFebruary, Stephen Beaumont (Canada);
• and resident beer sommelier, Jane Peyton (UK)

• Mahou - Barrica Bourbon & Original
• Yeastie Boys - Joy Juice & Brewing with Wayne
• Funk Estate - Jungle Boogie; Parrotdog - Colin & Behemoth - Kind of a Big Deal
• Rogue Ales - Marionberry Sour
• Craftwork - Riverstone 10
• Rogue Ales - Dead & Dead

Many thanks to New Zealand Beer Collective, Mahou San Miguel and Yeastie Boys for providing some of the beers reviewed during this episode.

This episode - the first of the new, fortnightly episodes - is an alcohol-free special.

Emma takes a look at:

• who's drinking alcohol-free beer?
• how is the beer brewed?
• what are some of the challenges around brewing & selling alcohol free beer?
• and what does it actually taste like?

She enlists the help of:

• Fergus Fitzgerald - Head Brewer at Adnams Brewery;
• Laura Willoughby - co-founder of Club Soda - The Mindful Drinking Movement;
• Brigid Simmonds - Chief Executive of the British Beer & Pub Association;
• the staff and customers at Bison Beer Crafthouse in Hove;
• and resident beer sommelier, Jane Peyton

PLUS - we put the best dog beers to the test with the help of Rupert the Whippet and Colin the Border Terrier (no - really, we do...)

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• Adnams Ghost Ship - Alcohol-Free
• Rupert Whippet
• Dog Beer Challenge - blind tasting
• Vanderstreek - Playground IPA, Big Drop - Pale Ale, Stiegl - Freibier & Guinness - Pure Brew
• Dog Beer Challenge - blind tasting
• Mikkeller's range of no/low alcohol beers
• Colin Border Terrier
• Mikkeller - Wierd Weather NEIPA
• Dog Beer Challenge - Rupert Whippet with the full line-up

Don't forget to check out the Club Soda Mindful Drinking Festival at the Truman Brewery, Brick Lane this weekend - Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 January. Both Emma & Jane will be there leading tours and hosting talks & tastings. Come along and try some no/low alcohol beers for yourself.

Emma would like to thank Euroboozer, Guinness & Greene King for supplying some of the beers. Rupert Whippet would like to thank Father Christmas for supplying his stash of dog beers.

On this month's show we are: - bringing in the hop harvest with Bedlam Brewery; - growing hops at home with resident homebrew expert, James Torr; - talking beer with the legendary Roger Ryman from St Austell Brewery; - catching up with Pete Brown, Them that Can and There's A Beer For That at the Beer & Cider Marketing Awards, and - chatting about hops and food live in the studio with award-winning beer sommelier, Jane Peyton! Produced & presented by Emma Inch (@fermentradio)

In this episode: - Jaega Wise - head brewer at Walthamstow's Wild Card Brewery - gives Emma a tour of the new site and introduces her to some very special brews; - London Beer Factory's Sim & Brett tell us about their plans to take a coolship on the road; - Ben McFarland, one half of the Thinking Drinkers - tells us about their new show, 'Pub Crawl'; - Steve Fisher, the man behind the Kitbag Brewery - a revolutionary new homebrew set up in a bag - encourages Emma to brew up a beer on her kitchen stove; - Steve Keegan - head brewer and founder of Holler Brewery - shows Emma around their new city-centre tap room; - and resident beer sommelier and the UK's very first cider pommelier, Jane Peyton, is in the studio to taste and talk all manner of beer! Produced and presented by Emma Inch (@fermentradio)

On this month's show: - Erica Horton - Founder of Fem.ale Brewster Beer Festival - discusses diversity in beer & brewing; - Adrian Tierney-Jones tells us about the new team at Original Gravity Magazine; - we look ahead to Beer Day Britain which is coming up on June 15th; - and we talk lager brewing, homebrewing, and food matching with Pillars Brewery, Freedom Brewery, homebrew expert James Torr and resident beer sommelier, Jane Peyton. Produced & presented by Emma Inch (@fermentradio)